Author: Pierre Christin
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 191062036X
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The achievements of one man changed the face of an entire city. Robert Moses: the mastermind of New York. From the subway to the skyscraper, from Manhattan's Financial District to the Long Island suburbs, every inch of New York tells the story of this controversial urban planner's mind. In paperback for the first time, Pierre Christin and Olivier Balez's comic book takes on the infamous "Power Broker" and unlocks the historical battles that created the modern metropolis.
Robert Moses
Author: Pierre Christin
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 191062036X
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The achievements of one man changed the face of an entire city. Robert Moses: the mastermind of New York. From the subway to the skyscraper, from Manhattan's Financial District to the Long Island suburbs, every inch of New York tells the story of this controversial urban planner's mind. In paperback for the first time, Pierre Christin and Olivier Balez's comic book takes on the infamous "Power Broker" and unlocks the historical battles that created the modern metropolis.
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 191062036X
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The achievements of one man changed the face of an entire city. Robert Moses: the mastermind of New York. From the subway to the skyscraper, from Manhattan's Financial District to the Long Island suburbs, every inch of New York tells the story of this controversial urban planner's mind. In paperback for the first time, Pierre Christin and Olivier Balez's comic book takes on the infamous "Power Broker" and unlocks the historical battles that created the modern metropolis.
The Greatest Grid
Author: Hilary Ballon
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780231159906
Category : Atlases
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"Published to coincide with an exhibition at the Museum of the City of New York celebrating the bicentennial of the 1811 Commissioners' Plan of Manhattan, this volume does more than memorialize such a visionary effort, it serves as an enduring reference full of rare images and information."--P. [4] of cover.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780231159906
Category : Atlases
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"Published to coincide with an exhibition at the Museum of the City of New York celebrating the bicentennial of the 1811 Commissioners' Plan of Manhattan, this volume does more than memorialize such a visionary effort, it serves as an enduring reference full of rare images and information."--P. [4] of cover.
Masters of Craft
Author: Richard E. Ocejo
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691183198
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
In today’s new economy—in which “good” jobs are typically knowledge or technology based—many well-educated and culturally savvy young people are instead choosing to pursue traditionally low-status manual labor occupations as careers. Masters of Craft looks at the renaissance of four such trades: bartending, distilling, barbering, and butchering. In this engaging book, Richard Ocejo takes you into the lives and workplaces of these people to examine how they are transforming once-undesirable jobs into “cool” and highly specialized upscale occupations. He shows how they find meaning in these jobs by enacting a set of “cultural repertoires,” resulting in a new form of elite taste-making. Focusing on cocktail bartenders, craft distillers, upscale men’s barbers, and whole-animal butcher shop workers in Manhattan, Brooklyn, and upstate New York, Masters of Craft provides new insights into the stratification of taste, the spread of gentrification, and the evolving labor market in today’s postindustrial city.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691183198
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
In today’s new economy—in which “good” jobs are typically knowledge or technology based—many well-educated and culturally savvy young people are instead choosing to pursue traditionally low-status manual labor occupations as careers. Masters of Craft looks at the renaissance of four such trades: bartending, distilling, barbering, and butchering. In this engaging book, Richard Ocejo takes you into the lives and workplaces of these people to examine how they are transforming once-undesirable jobs into “cool” and highly specialized upscale occupations. He shows how they find meaning in these jobs by enacting a set of “cultural repertoires,” resulting in a new form of elite taste-making. Focusing on cocktail bartenders, craft distillers, upscale men’s barbers, and whole-animal butcher shop workers in Manhattan, Brooklyn, and upstate New York, Masters of Craft provides new insights into the stratification of taste, the spread of gentrification, and the evolving labor market in today’s postindustrial city.
Mordew
Author: Alex Pheby
Publisher: Tor Books
ISBN: 1250817234
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
Alex Pheby's Mordew launches an astonishingly inventive epic fantasy trilogy. God is dead, his corpse hidden in the catacombs beneath Mordew. In the slums of the sea-battered city, a young boy called Nathan Treeves lives with his parents, eking out a meagre existence by picking treasures from the Living Mud and the half-formed, short-lived creatures it spawns. Until one day his desperate mother sells him to the mysterious Master of Mordew. The Master derives his magical power from feeding on the corpse of God. But Nathan, despite his fear and lowly station, has his own strength—and it is greater than the Master has ever known. Great enough to destroy everything the Master has built. If only Nathan can discover how to use it. So it is that the Master begins to scheme against him—and Nathan has to fight his way through the betrayals, secrets, and vendettas of the city where God was murdered, and darkness reigns. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Publisher: Tor Books
ISBN: 1250817234
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
Alex Pheby's Mordew launches an astonishingly inventive epic fantasy trilogy. God is dead, his corpse hidden in the catacombs beneath Mordew. In the slums of the sea-battered city, a young boy called Nathan Treeves lives with his parents, eking out a meagre existence by picking treasures from the Living Mud and the half-formed, short-lived creatures it spawns. Until one day his desperate mother sells him to the mysterious Master of Mordew. The Master derives his magical power from feeding on the corpse of God. But Nathan, despite his fear and lowly station, has his own strength—and it is greater than the Master has ever known. Great enough to destroy everything the Master has built. If only Nathan can discover how to use it. So it is that the Master begins to scheme against him—and Nathan has to fight his way through the betrayals, secrets, and vendettas of the city where God was murdered, and darkness reigns. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
My Weirdest School #8: Mrs. Master Is a Disaster!
Author: Dan Gutman
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 9780062429339
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
With more than 11 million books sold, the My Weird School series really gets kids reading! In this eighth book in the new My Weirdest School series, it’s Grandparents Day at Ella Mentry School! Alexia’s grandmother Mrs. Master makes weird inventions for a living, but A.J. and the gang come up with the weirdest invention of all. And they’re going to make a bazillion dollars from it! Will they succeed? Or will their great big idea be flushed down the drain? Perfect for reluctant readers and word lovers alike, Dan Gutman’s hugely popular My Weird School chapter book series has something for everyone. Don’t miss the hilarious adventures of A.J. and the gang!
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 9780062429339
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
With more than 11 million books sold, the My Weird School series really gets kids reading! In this eighth book in the new My Weirdest School series, it’s Grandparents Day at Ella Mentry School! Alexia’s grandmother Mrs. Master makes weird inventions for a living, but A.J. and the gang come up with the weirdest invention of all. And they’re going to make a bazillion dollars from it! Will they succeed? Or will their great big idea be flushed down the drain? Perfect for reluctant readers and word lovers alike, Dan Gutman’s hugely popular My Weird School chapter book series has something for everyone. Don’t miss the hilarious adventures of A.J. and the gang!
Manhattan's Public Spaces
Author: Ana Morcillo Pallarés
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000476693
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
Manhattan’s Public Spaces: Production, Revitalization, Commodification analyzes a series of architectural works and their contribution to New York’s public space over the past few decades. By exploring a mix of urban mechanisms, supportive frameworks, legal systems, and planning guidelines for the transformation of the city’s collective realm, the text frames Manhattan as a controversial landscape of interests and concerns to authorities, communities, and, very importantly, developers. The production, revitalization, and commodification of Manhattan’s public spaces, as a phenomenon and as a subject of study, also highlights the vicissitudes of the reconciliation of the many different agents, which are part of the process. The challenge of the book does not only lie in the analysis of good design but, more importantly, in how to understand the functional mechanisms for the current trends in the production of space for public use. A complex framework of actors, governance, and market monopolies, which invites the reader to participate in the debate of how these interventions contribute, or not, to an inclusive environment anchored in the existing built fabric. Manhattan’s Public Spaces invites reflection on the revitalization of the city’s shared space from all dimensions. Beautifully illustrated in black and white, with over 50 images, this book will be of interest to scholars and students in architecture, planning, and urban design.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000476693
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
Manhattan’s Public Spaces: Production, Revitalization, Commodification analyzes a series of architectural works and their contribution to New York’s public space over the past few decades. By exploring a mix of urban mechanisms, supportive frameworks, legal systems, and planning guidelines for the transformation of the city’s collective realm, the text frames Manhattan as a controversial landscape of interests and concerns to authorities, communities, and, very importantly, developers. The production, revitalization, and commodification of Manhattan’s public spaces, as a phenomenon and as a subject of study, also highlights the vicissitudes of the reconciliation of the many different agents, which are part of the process. The challenge of the book does not only lie in the analysis of good design but, more importantly, in how to understand the functional mechanisms for the current trends in the production of space for public use. A complex framework of actors, governance, and market monopolies, which invites the reader to participate in the debate of how these interventions contribute, or not, to an inclusive environment anchored in the existing built fabric. Manhattan’s Public Spaces invites reflection on the revitalization of the city’s shared space from all dimensions. Beautifully illustrated in black and white, with over 50 images, this book will be of interest to scholars and students in architecture, planning, and urban design.
The Master of Dreams
Author: Michael D. Resnick
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0756413842
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Opening a new fantasy trilogy from Hugo award winner Resnick, this novel offers an adventure through space and time as Eddie Raven tries to outrun the dark forces pursuing him. Eddie Raven isn't quite sure what's happening to him--and he's in a race to find out before it kills him. His adventures begin with a shooting in a very strange shop in Manhattan--but soon he finds himself the owner of a very familiar bar in Casablanca. By the time he adjusts to that reality, he's suddenly become one of several undersized people helping a young woman search for a wizard. And after confronting the wizard, he somehow finds himself in Camelot. But as he rushes to solve the mystery of his many appearances, a larger threat looms. Because someone or something is stalking him through time and space with deadly intent....
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0756413842
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Opening a new fantasy trilogy from Hugo award winner Resnick, this novel offers an adventure through space and time as Eddie Raven tries to outrun the dark forces pursuing him. Eddie Raven isn't quite sure what's happening to him--and he's in a race to find out before it kills him. His adventures begin with a shooting in a very strange shop in Manhattan--but soon he finds himself the owner of a very familiar bar in Casablanca. By the time he adjusts to that reality, he's suddenly become one of several undersized people helping a young woman search for a wizard. And after confronting the wizard, he somehow finds himself in Camelot. But as he rushes to solve the mystery of his many appearances, a larger threat looms. Because someone or something is stalking him through time and space with deadly intent....
My Thirty Years in New York City
Author: John Joseph Strangi
Publisher: Page Publishing Inc
ISBN: 1681390396
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 169
Book Description
1973 MAGICAL 1974 EXQUISITE 1975 GLITTERING 1976 THRILLING 1977 FASCINATING 1978 MIRACULOUS 1979 ENCHANTING 1980 DELIGHTFUL 1981 DAZZLING 1982 MAGNETIC 1983 MAGNIFICENT 1984 BREATHTAKING 1985 EXCEPTIONAL 1986 ENTHRALLING 1987 BUBBLY 1988 STUPENDOUS 1989 ASTOUNDING 1990 CAPTIVATING 1991 MARVELOUS 1992 ASTONISHING 1993 SPARKLING 1994 CHARMING 1995 STUNNING 1996 INCREDIBLE 1997 EXQUISITE 1998 EXCELLENT 1999 STUNNING 2000 EXCELLENT 2001 ENERGETIC 2002 OUTSTANDING 2003 ACTIVE MELANCHOLY & SAD Maggie Smith, Julie Andrews, Edward Albee, Brook Astor, Stephen Sondheim, Katharine Hepburn, Tony Bennett, Lena Horne, Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Lauren Bacall, Jennifer Lopez, Dorothy Loudon, John Houseman, Elaine Stritch, Maureen Stapleton, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Claudette Colbert, Angela Lansbury, Rue McClannahan, Al Hirschfeld, Helen Hayes THIRTY YEARS IN NEW YORK CITY OR TRYING TO MAKE THAT BROADWAY DREAM COME TRUE There are simply not enough adjectives in the English language to describe my thirty magical years in NYC. This book takes you on a lively tour of each year. Welcome to my world.
Publisher: Page Publishing Inc
ISBN: 1681390396
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 169
Book Description
1973 MAGICAL 1974 EXQUISITE 1975 GLITTERING 1976 THRILLING 1977 FASCINATING 1978 MIRACULOUS 1979 ENCHANTING 1980 DELIGHTFUL 1981 DAZZLING 1982 MAGNETIC 1983 MAGNIFICENT 1984 BREATHTAKING 1985 EXCEPTIONAL 1986 ENTHRALLING 1987 BUBBLY 1988 STUPENDOUS 1989 ASTOUNDING 1990 CAPTIVATING 1991 MARVELOUS 1992 ASTONISHING 1993 SPARKLING 1994 CHARMING 1995 STUNNING 1996 INCREDIBLE 1997 EXQUISITE 1998 EXCELLENT 1999 STUNNING 2000 EXCELLENT 2001 ENERGETIC 2002 OUTSTANDING 2003 ACTIVE MELANCHOLY & SAD Maggie Smith, Julie Andrews, Edward Albee, Brook Astor, Stephen Sondheim, Katharine Hepburn, Tony Bennett, Lena Horne, Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Lauren Bacall, Jennifer Lopez, Dorothy Loudon, John Houseman, Elaine Stritch, Maureen Stapleton, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Claudette Colbert, Angela Lansbury, Rue McClannahan, Al Hirschfeld, Helen Hayes THIRTY YEARS IN NEW YORK CITY OR TRYING TO MAKE THAT BROADWAY DREAM COME TRUE There are simply not enough adjectives in the English language to describe my thirty magical years in NYC. This book takes you on a lively tour of each year. Welcome to my world.
New York City
Author: George J. Lankevich
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 9780814751862
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Previously published as An American Metropolis, this book is a punchy, definitive history of New York and has been updated to include new material on the Giuliani administration and the events of September 2001.
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 9780814751862
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Previously published as An American Metropolis, this book is a punchy, definitive history of New York and has been updated to include new material on the Giuliani administration and the events of September 2001.
Supreme City
Author: Donald L. Miller
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416550208
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 784
Book Description
An award-winning historian surveys the astonishing cast of characters who helped turn Manhattan into the world capital of commerce, communication and entertainment --
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416550208
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 784
Book Description
An award-winning historian surveys the astonishing cast of characters who helped turn Manhattan into the world capital of commerce, communication and entertainment --